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Surnames: casto
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Hi. I am looking for him or his family. (He would have been born probably between 1905 and
1926)
He was in the Army Airborne during WW2. He was in the 17th Airborne Division/139th
Engineer Battalion at one time in his military career and possibly transferred to the
101st or the 82nd Airborne when the 17th was disbanded in 1945. He would have been in the
Engineer Battalion, HQ & S or medical.
I am in the process of writing a book about the Battalion and would like to have him
contact me. If he is no longer with us, I'd like the family to touch base with me to
give me a summary of his life since the service. This also will be in the book.
I have also succeeded in getting these WW2 Heros to touch base again with their comrades
after not seeing each other for almost 60 years. Their reunions have been wonderful.
This project is so important because 17 million personnel files were destroyed in the 1973
file in St. Louis MO. I want to make sure that these men will never be forgotten and will
be put in the history books for generations to come!
Thank you for all leads to help me on this tribute to our WW2 Heros.
Sincerely,
Tammy Paynter